An empirical study of what drives users to share knowledge in virtual communities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4092 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 563-575

  Ye, Shun ^a   Chen, Huaping ^a   Jin, Xiaoling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTION; MOTIVATION MODEL;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 33749404549     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11811220_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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